Lord Fisher, [ John Arbuthnot ] Admiral Of The Fleet — Memories

Hodder & Stoughton 1919 1st edition. Cloth, G+. xvi+295pp, b/w frontis, 15 b/w plates, index, cloth a little rubbed & marked, occasional foxing. A first volume of recollections divided into : King Edward VII - ‘The Moon Sways Oceans And Provokes The Hound’ - Admiral Von Pohl And Admiral Von Tirpitz - Economy Is Victory - The Dardanelles - Abdul Hamid And The Pope - A Jeu D'esprit - Naval War Staff And Admiralty Clerks - Recapitulation Of Deeds And Ideas - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Nelson - Letters To Lord Esher - Americans - Some Special Missions - Some Personalities - Things That Please Me - Epilogue. Admiral of the Fleet John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher [ 1841 - 1920 ] Royal Navy officer, recognised as an innovator, strategist, and architect of naval reform rather than as an operational admiral.